Hard Disk Manager is a sector-level backup solution designed to ensure business continuity and keep your business up and running. Hard Disk Manager is ideal for protecting entire servers, databases and virtual machines and is optimized for fast backup/restore, server migrations and bare metal recovery.

Ultimate Backup & Disaster Recovery

Innovative backup imaging technology – for users it’s available as a new backup image container pVHD (Paragon Virtual Hard Drive) format – a special VHD, optimized for storing backups of virtual and physical machines. It’s very efficient in handling incremental chains, data deduplication and synchronization. Besides pVHD, the new technology enables to back up directly to any virtual container (VMDK, VHD, etc.)

Back up exactly what you need, and with the best suited backup technique – recommended automatically based on the type of data you wish to protect

No hardware dependency with Paragon Adaptive RestoreTM

Easily recover files, databases, mailboxes, emails and other items

Comprehensive recovery environments based on DOS, Linux, and WinPE*

Boot problem correction without restore

Fast Image Backup

Live imaging and migration of Windows systems with two snapshot technologies – Microsoft VSS and Paragon Hot BackupTM to guarantee fast and reliable live protection

Seamless Migration

Migrate any Windows OS since XP to a similar or different hardware configuration

Efficient Optimization

Automatic partition alignment optimizes the drive for performance and longevity (not all operations are supported)

Exclusive optimization of NTFS file system (MFT defragmentation and shrinking)

Secure Wiping

Easily erase all live data so it cannot be recovered with any existing technology

10 wipe algorithms including military and government data erasure standards of several countries to destroy all on-disk information or only remnants of deleted files / directories without affecting the used data

Paragon’s innovative backup imaging technology now opens up the option of creating file-level virtual containers (full, incremental, as well as file complements), thus offering users rock-stable, high-performance technology to protect system and data not only on sector-level, but file-level as well.

Refactored P2V Restore Wizard

Instead of the old PBF-based backup images, you can now use virtual containers (pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK). It’s the ideal solution to do P2V out of backup image scenarios. The use of virtual containers significantly improves the performance and usability for P2V migration operations.

Revised Graphical User Interface (GUI)

The GUI of Hard Disk Manager 15 has been revised. It is now easier to find particular functions. Legacy functions that deal with the old Paragon’s backup container (.pbf) are hidden by default but can be called through a special legacy view.

Wiping SSD

Wipe SSDs of most manufactures very user-friendly and permanently!

Paragon Recovery Media Builder 3.0

Instead of two utilities downloaded from Paragon’s website (BMB and RMB), the new RMB 3.0 is now embedded into the product. Combining the best of the two utilities, it can boast more options, usability, and stability: Prepares Linux or WinPE-based bootable environment on a USB thumb drive, in an ISO or PXE image
Doesn’t obligatory require Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) or Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) on Windows 7 and later platforms Can build WinPE-based media on Windows XP, Vista, if there’s WAIK installed in the system Allows injecting additional drivers for storage devices, network controllers, USB controllers, or system during setup Enables to set up a network connection with a pre-mounted network share during setup Prepares hybrid (both, uEFI and BIOS compatible) 64-bit recovery environment on flash or in an ISO image

Backup and Recovery Features

Any existing backup techniques

Sector and file level backups with differential or incremental updates as well as an exclusive file complement

Paragon’s innovative backup imaging technology now opens up the option of creating file-level virtual containers (full, incremental, as well as file complements), thus offering users rock-stable, high-performance technology to protect system and data not only on sector-level, but file-level as well.

Incremental Backup to VD

Back up changes since the full, or the latest incremental image. It’s allowed to maintain several incremental chains based on one full image, provided each chain contains changed data of a particular backup object(s). To effectively manage backup contents and cut on backup storage requirements, the last increment in the chain is allowed to merge with the previous one, thus updating its contents. Incremental imaging for virtual containers (pVHD, VHD, VMDK) works much faster and rock-stable in comparison with the old PBF

Retention Wizard for VD

Set up unattended backup operations involving regular creation of full or incremental virtual containers controlled by special backup data retention policies. This tool is fully compliant with the so called set-and-forget backup strategies:It can process separate partitions or entire hard disks It can do full and incremental images

Incremental disk imaging

Unlike differentials, increments may not only contain data changed since the time of creating a full archive, but one of its increments as well, thus allowing to save more time and the backup storage. With this type of disk imaging method our company has introduced an innovative technology that boosts efficiency of the network backup by 200%

Selective Restore

Easily extract files and folders from a backup image through the Restore Wizard without the need to restore an entire image

P2P Adjust OS Wizard

Successfully migrate a Windows physical system to a different hardware platform (P2P).

Hot Processing Options

Live backup is a key feature for any backup software. The product has a highly flexible, improved configuration for two different methods of hot processing: Paragon HotBackup and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Backup and Restore to or from FTP/sFTP

Directly write your backups to an FTP server. Using sFTP, the data transfer to the external server will be protected and encrypted

GPT/uEFI compatible Backup Capsule

Build a WinPE-based bootable backup capsule for your 64-bit Windows system resided on GPT to successfully start up PC from it in case of emergency

Improved write-operations by using asynchronous backup

Improve the speed of the backup processing by using asynchronous writing operations

Encryption and password protection for backups

To avoid unauthorized access to your backup files, you can easily encrypt them within our backup wizards

Comprehensive recovery environments

Three types to choose from, based on the latest Linux, DOS, and WinPE1, available on CD/DVD/Blu-ray, thumb drives or Backup Capsule

Disaster recovery for Apple Boot Camp

Protect dual-boot Macs from the Windows side or in the Linux or WinPE recovery environments

Partitioning and Optimization Features

Partitioning Engine

Paragon implemented a completely new engine for all partitioning tasks. The result is a very strong partitioning engine that works generically with all modern hard drive technologies

Convert basic MBR to basic GPT disks

Convert basic GPT to basic MBR disks

Boot Corrector

Fix most of the system boot problems that result from human or program error, or a boot virus activity

HFS file systems conversion

Convert any version of NTFS file system to Apple HFS and vice versa without reformatting

Data Copy and Migration Features

Copy/Restore to dissimilar sector size

Copy or restore contents of a 512-byte hard disk to a 4k hard disk with no additional actions from your side

Full range of copying operations

Copy a full hard disk or a separate partition, and resize a partition while copying

Migrate OS to SSD

Move any Windows OS since XP from a regular hard disk to a fast SSD (Solid State Drive) even of a smaller capacity, thanks to advanced data exclusion capabilities

GPT Loader

Support of GPT drives and modern high capacity disks (2.2TB+) under Windows XP for storing data

File exclude for Copy HDD

When copying a partition or a complete hard drive to a new device, you can now easily exclude data you want to exclude from the copy process

Migrate OS to dissimilar hardware

Migrate existing systems and make them bootable in a new hardware environment

Virtualization Features

P2V Copy / P2V Adjust OS

Migrate a physical system to a virtual environment in the online mode and make the OS start up after unsuccessful migration or virtualization with third-party tools

Refactored P2V Restore Wizard

Instead of the old PBF-based backup images, you can now use virtual containers (pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK). It’s the ideal solution to do P2V out of backup image scenarios. The use of virtual containers significantly improves the performance and usability for P2V migration operations.

P2V Restore

Restore a physical system from a backup directly to a virtual environment

V2V / V2P

Migrate a virtual system from one virtual environment to another, or migrate a virtual system to a physical environment

Connect VD

Connect a virtual disk as if it’s an ordinary physical disk and open up all physical-disk functionality in a virtual environment

Read-only mode for virtual disks

Mount a virtual disk in read-only mode to make sure no data is altered on the virtual disk during copy or other operations

Resume operations on virtual volumes

Hard Disk Manager is now able to resume any operation with a virtual volume in case of disconnection or any other unexpected situation

Support for major virtual machines

Data Wiping

Destroy all on-disk information or only remnants of deleted files/directories with 10 wiping methods: a custom algorithm, the US DoD 5220.22-M military standard, Russian GOST R 50739-95, US Navy, British HMG Infosec, German VSItR, Australian ASCI 33, Guttman’s, Schneier’s and Paragon’s Algorithm

Wiping SSD

Wipe SSDs of most manufactures very user-friendly and permanently!

Supported Technologies and Operating Systems

Support for Apple HFS+

Not only resize, but also create, format, or get read only access to this file system through our program

Complete uEFI Support

Adjust your 64-bit Windows system configured to the uEFI boot mode to successfully start up OS on another hard disk after copy/restore, or in a virtual environment after P2V migration in Windows, WinPE** or Linux

Support for the latest HDD standards

Support for USB 3.0

Manage external hard drives more effectively by using all the benefits of a USB 3.0 interface

BitLocker Support

Back up, restore or copy volumes encrypted by this security feature

Windows Storage Spaces Support

Copy, back up, restore, or resize Windows Storage Spaces directly in our program

Check FS Integrity and Data Loss Policies

Specify the acceptable balance between the operation performance and the risk of data loss

Revised Graphical User Interface (GUI)

The GUI of Hard Disk Manager 15 has been revised. It is now easier to find particular functions. Legacy functions that deal with the old Paragon’s backup container (.pbf) are hidden by default but can be called through a special legacy view.